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Engineers for Earth, tiger hit, space club grows and more

26 August 2009

Engineers for Earth

Geoengineering could contribute to a million-job green engineering sector in the UK by 2050, says the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers. It says that the British government should set aside £10 million for research into the field and should start building artificial trees to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Hippy habits die hard

Forty years after the festival that gave them their name, the “Woodstock generation” continue to make a mark on US health statistics. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports that, in 2007, 9.4 per cent of people aged 50 to …